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THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 8
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They say: Many waters cannot quench love.
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O that</span> thou <i>wert</i> as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother!  <i>when</i> I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
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I would lead thee, <i>and</i> bring thee into my mother’s house, <i>who</i> would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
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His left hand <i>should be</i> under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
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I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake <i>my</i> love, until he please.
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Who <i>is</i> this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?  I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth <i>that</i> bare thee.
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&#182; Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love <i>is</i> strong as death; jealousy <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="song/8/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Cruelty.">cruel</a> as the grave: the coals thereof <i>are</i> coals of fire, <i>which hath</i> a most vehement flame.
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
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&#182; We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
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If she <i>be</i> a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she <i>be</i> a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
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I <i>am</i> a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
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Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand <i>pieces</i> of silver.
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My vineyard, which <i>is</i> mine, <i>is</i> before me: thou, O Solomon, <i>must have </i>a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
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Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear <i>it.</i>
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&#182; Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young <sup>a</sup><a href="song/8/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR gazelle, fawn.">hart</a> upon the mountains of spices.
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